British Prime Minister Theresa May has contacted President Trump Wednesday to thank him for announcing the closure of the Russian Consulate in Seattle, and the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats from the United States.
According to British officials, May told Trump it was a “very strong response” to Russian aggression, and had led the way in a new round of expulsions, now announced by at least 26 different Western nations.
The expulsions are nominally to protest Russia having poisoned a former spy in Salisbury. Russia, however, denied that they were behind the poisoning, and Britain has failed to produce evidence. Indeed, the test on the poison hasn’t even been completed, and won’t be for at least two more weeks.
This is raising concerns that everyone is getting way ahead of themselves in “punishing” Russia for something that they only assume they did. British officials have repeatedly declared Russia guilty, and made increasingly preposterous allegations, like Putin “personally” ordering it, despite having nothing to back such claims up. Britain is clearly comfortable with wild accusations, and the US seems to be fine with going along and not asking too many questions.
We are reaching a dangerous crescendo with this very controlled and distorted narrative. That the US State Department’s Heather Nauert had the audacity to state aloud that the US does not need any evidence of Russian wrong doing, Britain’s ‘word’ is enough proof, is stunning. The war lunatics are clearly running the asylum and this is a very dangerous game. There will be serious consequences…
Merkel said that the Russians had to “prove they had not done it”!!!
This is the new rule of law in the “advanced European nations”;
Theresa May limps with both legs.
The most audacious act of her life was to run through a field of wheat.
She clings to her job by her fingernails, at the mercy of her party.
I hope the bear bites her for rattling it’s cage.
The goal of US/Brit officials probably isn’t a war with Russia, although that’s a real risk. Mostly they want to bully Europe into not doing business with Russia, which (surprise surprise, how convenient) means doing more business with the US/UK.
Of course the USA has to follow any UK suggestion and expel even more than the UK did, all without the slightest bit of evidence or possible reason that the Russians would perform such a stupid, useless, self-defeating act with all the usual suspects continuing the Russian-bashing. Who benefits?
The USA, of course, has no need for diplomacy-that is for weaklings and losers. The USA spends HUUUUGE amounts on military might-who needs diplomats or the State Department?
Obama managed to end his term so well, expelling diplomats and stealing the Russian property with no evidence of evildoing, and got the whole process of Russiagate into action, leading on to this dangerous situation from the farce of the Mueller “investigation”.